[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Polity, law and society](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity) › [Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915) › v1.c6.98 # Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v1.c6.98 Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v1.c6.98 - **Language:** English ### [v1.c6.98](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v1.c6.98) ² In German: Tendenzfiktion (tendentious fiction). Further, Viṣṇu, xv, 3 also says that the kṣhetraja is begotten by a sapiṇḍa or a Brahman (uttamavarṇa) (it is not said whether the husband is still alive). That a ripe (but not yet married) maiden should without hesitation let children be begotten to her by an excelling Brahman (or: by a Brahman as being the most excellent of men) Devayānī finds quite in order (i, 83.1–8). She is a Brahman woman, and the girl in question a Kṣhatriyā. Cp. Malory’s \*Morte d’Arthur\*, iii, 3. - [Previous: v1.c6.97](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v1.c6.97) - [Next: v1.c6.99](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v1.c6.99) - [Up: v1.c6](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v1.c6) ## Cites (2) - [Mahābhārata](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa*vulgate.1.83.1) — Sanskrit - [Vaiṣṇava Dharmaśāstra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.visnu.15.3) — Viṣṇu, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v1.c6.98](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v1.c6.98) · Pramāṇa